[*BCM*] Motorist kills cyclist, sues for car damages
Jym Dyer
jym at econet.org
Thu Jan 31 12:01:09 EST 2008
> Most police have no experience with accident reconstruction
> involving bicycles and furthermore see more cyclists ignoring
> the traffic laws than following them so why shouldn't they
> assume that the cyclist was at fault.
=v= I would say "misperceive" rather than "see." Motorists
ignore more laws, more serious laws, and with much more serious
consequences; but since this is the norm, the police have taken
to ignoring all but their most egregious offenses. (Most of
them are plunked behind the wheels of cars themselves.)
<_Jym_>
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